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Dangerous Dog Attack!

My wife was attacked and seriously bitten by a bull terrier dog on Wightman Road on Wednesday evening. The dog was in a front garden of a property adjacent to the Fairlands Park, and jumped the fence and latched onto her leg as she ran past whilst jogging. She has sustained severe puncture wounds and bruising resulting in an ambulance taking her to hospital.

The police are involved, but the council are not interested. Please be vigilant and careful when passing that area, particularly if you have children with you.

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Permalink Reply by A Brown on January 15, 2015 at 21:06
Hi
If you know the house where the dog is living is there any evidence of drug dealing going on ? Cars pulling up a few doors away , people coming in and out all hours ? Dogs this aggressive are often owned by dealers for protection. The police might be more interested if this is the case?
My cat was killed in my front garden by a dog in May 2014 please see my previous posts ( Lausanne road) no one ever caught , police didn't give a toss. The owner had a young baby in a pram I feared for that child with such a vicious dog in the house.
Why are dogs allowed to be off the lead in the street? If the law was changed that all dogs walking on public footpaths had to be on a lead tHis would stop so much heartache . These type of dogs attack people, children, other dogs, cats , guide dogs, and no one does anything.
This is such a huge London problem, I visit Essex regulary and all dogs are walked on leads and are noticeable well behaved even in places such as large carboots where there is all shapes and sizes of dogs mixing with no aggressive issues.
A
Permalink Reply by Protheroe O'Shea on January 15, 2015 at 21:49
This is pretty poor of the police. Have you notified your local councillors?
Permalink Reply by HarringayBirder on January 16, 2015 at 12:52
The section makes the council responsible for protecting the right of the public to the use and enjoyment of the highway. If that use is compromised by a dog which has a propensity to leap over a fence and attack pedestrians it is a council problem I'm afraid.
Permalink Reply by John D on January 16, 2015 at 13:14

I don't agree but not going to argue it. Best of luck

Permalink Reply by Mr Wodjacallim on January 17, 2015 at 14:17

Sorry to hear about this, it must have been a frightening experience.   Did anyone find out who owned the dog?

Read this: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/dangerous-dogs-tough-new-law-to-...

The police and council are both responsible. Left to themselves, they are quite capable of a another Baby P.

If you speak to the owner about it, bear in mind the police are likely to give you a harassment warning.   They did that to me after complaining about planning violations and unsafe building work.

If the police and council do nothing, you should make an issue of it. The dog cannot be impossible to trace.

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